Accessible Virtual Pride 2026

Accessible Virtual Pride is a free, fully online, two-day Pride celebration centering disabled queer and trans people, accomplices, and access-minded community members. The program brings together interactive workshops, children’s programming, art-making, poetry, movement, games, practical skill sharing, a livestream variety show, drag, dance, music, advocacy, virtual art and vendor spaces, and a digital dance party—all designed so people can participate from home and across distance. Accessible Virtual Pride is produced by Calling Up Justice and One Free Community, and each year we invite a new producing partner into the collaboration, growing the skills, relationships, and shared ownership of the event. Join us in 2027 as an artist, workshop facilitator, performer, volunteer, access worker, partner, or audience member. Bring your art, access needs, politics, joy, and weird ideas, and help us continue building a disability-led queer Pride celebration across space and time.

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2026 Accessible Virtual Pride Summery

Accessible Virtual Pride 2026 was a joyful, maximalist, two-day online celebration centering disabled queer and trans people, disability justice, access, art, advocacy, and community care.

The first day was less like a traditional conference and more like a temporary online disability and queer community center. People could learn practical skills, encounter new art forms, share their own work, meet organizers, play, rest, and move between spaces. The variety of offerings was intentional: children’s programming existed alongside poetry, sewing, travel, gaming, history, dance, and experimental opera. There was no single correct way to participate.

After a welcome and orientation, participants could move between different virtual stages and choose offerings based on their interests, energy, and access needs. The day included a reading of The Adventures of Masked Max, a children’s book about masking to protect community; a workshop on planning accessible vacations and travel; and a QTMadKrip poetry workshop specifically for queer, trans, Mad, Krip, and disabled writers. The Open Mic invited people to share live or submit short videos of songs, poetry, stories, music, and other art.

Other offerings invited people to make, play, dream, research, and move together. Participants joined a participatory crip opera to collectively dream their futures into lyrics and sound; learned practical and creative techniques for mending favorite clothes; and explored anti-ableism and disability-affirming play through puppetry and sensory activities for disabled children. An accessible Dungeons & Dragons workshop combined an introduction to disability-inclusive game design with a live one-shot featuring disabled and LGBTQIA+ characters and audience volunteers. A guided Emotion Movement workshop welcomed stillness, small movements, and whole-body movement, while a disability history session shared tools for researching and responsibly telling marginalized stories from the past.

The second day brought the community together for a livestream variety show that mixed performances, poetry, drag, dance, music, speeches, political advocacy, workshop report-backs, an online art gallery, and celebrations of disability-led organizations. The show featured artists and organizers across locations and disciplines while making room for ASL, CART captioning, access check-ins, breaks, multiple digital spaces, and asynchronous participation. Rather than treating access as an add-on, the production openly practiced access as an ongoing negotiation between artists, organizers, volunteers, and audience members.

The program celebrated disability-led and queer cultural organizations while featuring work from Sean Dorsey Dance, Drag Artists Taipei, Starrla Wheelz, Em Eilo, Gesy Duran, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, J Mase III, and many more. Hosts moved between live conversation, access check-ins, performances, the virtual art gallery, vendor booths, and community calls to action, with ASL interpretation and CART captioning supporting the broadcast. After the show, the celebration moved into the Digital Encampment in GatherTown for a virtual dance party featuring a DJ set from Positive Deviance. Participants could move their avatars through the digital space, dance together, talk in smaller groups, wander away and return, and experience the joyful weirdness of sharing a dance floor across distance. The party extended the project’s belief that virtual space can hold nightlife, pleasure, movement, and collective celebration—not simply meetings and webinars.

The event felt like a digital Pride parade, disability arts festival, community center, and political gathering all at once. Produced in a “stone soup” model, Accessible Virtual Pride demonstrated what can happen when many people bring what they have—a workshop, a performance, volunteer labor, technical skills, a donation, advocacy, or simply their presence. The result was not about producing perfection. We produced pleasure, political power, connection, and a space where our communities could celebrate US instead of the U.S.

2026 AVP Archives

For Screen Readers use the following link for access: [https://callingupjustice.notion.site/accessible-virtual-pride-2026]

Our Annual Accessible Virtual Pride was born from our disabled queer community members not being included in local in-person prides. Whether that was due to the lack of covid precautions or inaccessible venues, many events let go of their accessible initiatives. We listened to our community members and decided to work together to put together this event. It has been a resounding success with many saying this was the first pride they were ever able to attend!

July 4 – 5, 2026

Accessible Virtual Pride uses our Stone Soup producing model, centering Crip Time and tech systems that support open-space design. This approach allows us to quickly produce work with minimal resources, responding rapidly to needs. The concept of “many hands make light work” is key—when we have enough people to share responsibilities, we build resilience. Everyone is invited to participate and contribute to the event’s content and structure. People contribute what they can, whether as donors or by offering their skills, and the events remain free for all to attend.

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Join us for our Fourth Annual Accessible Virtual Pride produced with and for our disabled community and our LGBTQIA2s+ community, with allies welcome. As an organizing strategy this event collaborates with different pride celebrations across the country to help them increase their accessibility and livestream their events throughout the year. July 4 was the best weekend to produce this event because it’s Disability Pride month. We are here to celebrate us!

Access at Events

ASL Interpreters for Live Stream
CART Caption Live Stream
Closed Captions in Zoom
Quiet Room (breakout room in zoom)
Screen Reader Friendly Schedule (below).

Please ensure you filled out the Access Form to let us know you need support for ASL, Blind Access, or any other access needs not listed. Form Link [https://forms.gle/7GLcaso6icgfvY2F9]
For Screen Readers use the following link for access: [https://callingupjustice.notion.site/accessible-virtual-pride-2026] Request deadline is 6/30.

Become a Sponsor

To bring this virtual Pride celebration to life, we need financial support. We are looking to raise funds to cover essential costs, including platform hosting for the event, ASL interpreters to ensure accessibility for the Deaf community, an experienced online DJ, and so much more. Your sponsorship will not only help us cover these necessary expenses, but will also enable us to reach a wider audience and create a more impactful event. Below, you’ll find the list of sponsorship levels.

Access Sponsor – Covers ASL interpretation at $1000 and includes a shoutout and logo on the livestream
Rainbow Sponsor >$20K donation, Logo, Personal shout out on the livestream with their mission statement, 2 min speaking spot on the livestream, all of the collateral.
For the Dolls – Tech Sponsor > $10-15K donation support labor for labor and tech crew. Logo, personal shout out on livestream
The Rest Resistance – $1 – 5k – logo on the AVP webpage & on Livestream Sponsor Tile
The Gay Agenda – Under $500 donation – logo or name on the AVP webpage

This is an opportunity to align your brand with values of unity, strength, and pride, while making a tangible impact on the lives of countless individuals. Don’t miss out on this historic Virtual Pride celebration organized by and supporting the disabled and immunocompromised LBGTQ+ community. Sign up now to become a sponsor and be part of this incredible event.

Sponsorship Link: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/accessible-virtual-pride-sponsor

The Gay Agenda Sponsors

Up to $500 Donors Include:

FRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS is a San Francisco organization that invests in the creative expression and cultural leadership of transgender, gender-nonconforming, and queer communities. We create and commission new work, present performing arts programs, conduct education and engagement, and advocate for intersectional justice in the Arts. We believe that the arts are a powerful tool for social justice and cultural transformation: our guiding principles are relevance, access, artistic excellence and solidarity. Founded in 202, this is our 25th Anniversary Season!

STIMPUNKS: We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people. We exist to build infrastructure that supports disabled and neurodivergent people where other systems fail. We provide mutual aid, creator grants, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence. We believe in self-determination.